The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.